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Thursday, April 2, 2015

How dangerous a little intolerance, like a little pregnant.

Once
you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for
every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.William
Butler Yeats

Indiana just recently past the
“Religious
Freedom Reformation Act” (RFRA) bill. While the supporters of the
bill, the Republican state legislator and governor, claim it is not
meant to discriminate, that is surely what it does. Not only can
business discriminate against LGBT individuals or groups on religious
grounds they can refuse to serve people who's religious beliefs
differs from theirs; such as Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, etc.
They can discriminate against women and virtually anyone they deem
does not meet their religious litmus test.

The
conservative pundits have been running around trying to defend the
indefensible and doing a bad job of it. Arkansas has just passed a
similar bill in their Republican controlled legislator but the
Governor has refused to sign it after seeing the firestorm that broke
out over the Indiana bill, unless the wording is changed.

It
seems that the Republicans really do a great job of restricting
freedoms. The intent of the Federal RFRA Act was to allow minority
groups the same religious freedoms enjoyed the majorities. But these
state bills seemed designed to allow the majority to slam the
minorities not just the LGBT community.

“Religious
Freedom Reformation Act” (RFRA) bills. That name is an
Orwellian-attempt to use the same name as the federal law for a law
that does pretty much the opposite of the intentions of the federal
law; the federal law was meant to protect religious minorities, not
give the majority a club with which to beat minorities.” Sarah
Jones, Politics
USA

Under
the guise of religious freedom these, primarily GOP legislators, who
suck up to the evangelical right, have shown their intolerance and
unchristian character.

What
is wonderful is that they seem to have galvanized the American public
and woken up a sleeping giant. America is a majority Democratic
leaning country and acts like this only help decent Americans see the
true color of the radical right. A radical right owned by the Koch
bros. End Post

Background

I earned my BA Degree at Queens College CUNY, in Political Science, and MA from College of Staten Island CUNY, in Liberal Studies. PhM in Metaphysics, studying the Egyptian Mystery school and its effect on western thinking. My other interest are masonic history, western civilization, specifically ancient Rome through the renaissance. My other pursuit is Shotokan Karate, an interest that has consumed beginning in 1960. I hold a 8 degree black belt in Shotokan Karate from the World Traditional Karate Organization, WTKO. www.wtko.org I hold a 3rd degree in Iaido, Japanese sword art including a variety of martial arts weapons and close combat techniques.